Tournament Hosting

[Dodge]

Don't forget they already bid for the euros, and they were laughed out of it

[Lionel Ritchie]

It's not quite the same thing, but I remember about 15/20 years ago, there was a meeting somewhere and the purpose was to have people interested in hosting the olympics to come along and see all the details of what hosting the tournament entailed. There was a reporter from RTE at the meeting, and when he was asked if it was feasible that Ireland would be able to host the olympics at some point in the future, his reply was that he didn't think we even had the facilities to host the meeting he'd just been at.

I believe that was more recently than you think ...and was a preliminary assessment/discussion of the Scots/Irish Euro 2008 bid.

[Gather round]

The UK associations are guardians of the rules of the game with FIFA - their vote is needed to change those rules, apart from that they have no special/privileged influence on other matters

Apparently genial Jim Boyce is set to replace England's Geoff Thompson on ExCo.

God help us all...

[geysir]

Then it must be that the UK associations have one of the 7 vice president seats reserved for their backside..
I hope it's a large seat for Jim.

[Crosby87]

To Yard of Pace above me sorry screwed it up too lazy to redo it with quote:

Umm..yes many Irish.
I often have trouble talking facts. People must feel guilty of something. I do not. So I can talk facts.
Also many Irish seem to confuse "Race" with "Religion." Islam is NOT a race.
Sorry, had to vent.

[weldoninhio]

That's the board that decides rule changes. Four FIFA nominees and one each from the four British FAs.

Pedantic Corner! 4 British FAs??? Don't they only have 3. England, Scotland and Wales??

[fionnsci]

What word would you use to describe the nationality of someone from the UK? British is the closest there is.

[AlaskaFox]

What word would you use to describe the nationality of someone from the UK? British is the closest there is.

None, the UK isn't a nation. It's four nations.

[Dodge]

FFS lads, every time? We all know the status of NI.

No need to drag every thread that mentions them into a fecking political protest

[Schumi]

As far as I know British is the correct term for "of the UK" but it's hardly worth the argument.

[Qwerty]

Does anyone watch the news here? We're broke and will be for some time to come.

[fionnsci]

Read the end of the opening post again.....

[SkStu]

FFS lads, every time? We all know the status of NI.

No need to drag every thread that mentions them into a fecking political protest

i dont know about anyone else but i think this forum needs a refresher course...

[BonnieShels]

I think Dev had some crazy plan for us to go for the Olympics in the 30's. Though that was when we gave Ardnacrusha to the world. Now we just taker Der monies.